"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing."

-- Derek Bailey

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes #Way Quotes

“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”
“I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”
“Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2016). “Mao II”, p.34, Pan Macmillan
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.
“To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.”

Source : 1982 Addition to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride.
“The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The supreme instance of this-the key to the Christian understanding of history-is to be found in the Incarnation- the presence of the maker of the world in the world unknown to the world. ... The Incarnation is itself in a sense the divine fruit of history-of the fullness of time-and it finds its extension and completion in the historic life of the Church.”
“I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.”
“I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.”

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